Taxpayers kept in dark about $80B a year program?
Food stamps can be spent on goods ranging from candy to steak and are accepted at retailers from gas stations that primarily sell potato chips to fried-chicken restaurants. And as the amount spent on food stamps has more than doubled in recent years, the amount of food stamps laundered into cash has increased dramatically, government statistics show.
But the government won’t say which stores are doing the most business in food stamps, and even it doesn’t know what kinds of food those taxpayer dollars buy.
Coinciding with lobbying by convenience stores, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program in conjunction with states, contends that disclosing how much each store authorized to accept benefits, known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), receives in taxpayer funds would amount to revealing trade secrets.
As a result, fraud is hard to track and the efficacy of the massive program is impossible to evaluate.
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- Andrew 2012/06/25 22:02:21
+1I think the whole idea of the "trade secrets" revelation is to disguise the fraud! Boy, do I wish we could go back to the days when ALL charity was handled by neighbors, churches, local civic groups and food banks. These etitlements are a noose about our nations neck that WILL be our undoing!reply















